From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 22:12:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DA5516A4DE for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:12:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schwabe@uni-paderborn.de) Received: from dagobah.rfc1149.org (dagobah.rfc1149.org [217.160.170.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A92843D58 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:12:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from schwabe@uni-paderborn.de) Received: from dslb-084-061-187-013.pools.arcor-ip.net ([84.61.187.13] helo=[192.168.0.42]) by dagobah.rfc1149.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GNGUf-000Lnx-4t; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:12:39 +0200 Message-ID: <450730CD.301@uni-paderborn.de> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:12:29 +0200 From: Arne Schwabe User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Sam Leffler , Reid Linnemann , cms01@tampabay.rr.com References: <200609121102.12577.cms01@tampabay.rr.com> <200609121141.09204.cms01@tampabay.rr.com> <4506F6DF.5010900@cs.okstate.edu> <4506FE59.6000600@errno.com> <20060912194349.GA36471@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20060912194349.GA36471@dragon.NUXI.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RFC-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "dagobah.rfc1149.org", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: David O'Brien schrieb: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 11:37:13AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: > >> I'd like to see support >> for these parts 'cuz they appear frequently in laptops; often with bios >> locking which makes swapping cards problematic. >> > > Scary. I've always assumed I could buy a laptop with any wireless NIC > and change it. Do you know which laptop vendors do this? Can you say > anything more on the "bios locking"? > For example IBM Thinkpad simply won't boot (BIOS Error Message) if you insert a non IBM WLAN Card. [...] Content analysis details: (-3.9 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -1.8 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.5 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-RFC-Spam-Score: -3.9 (---) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:10:15 +0000 Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD inquire X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:12:48 -0000 David O'Brien schrieb: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 11:37:13AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: > >> I'd like to see support >> for these parts 'cuz they appear frequently in laptops; often with bios >> locking which makes swapping cards problematic. >> > > Scary. I've always assumed I could buy a laptop with any wireless NIC > and change it. Do you know which laptop vendors do this? Can you say > anything more on the "bios locking"? > For example IBM Thinkpad simply won't boot (BIOS Error Message) if you insert a non IBM WLAN Card. Arne